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Naval Surgeon: Life and Death at Sea in the Age of Sail Nobel prizes and in the halls ofEstes, J. Worth, 1998, xii + 266pp., Illus. The serendipitous discovery of clinical records kept by the surgeon of the American frigate New York in 18021803 has opened a unique window onto the full impact of shipboard illness, and of its treatment, during the age of sail. Following family tradition, Peter St. Medard trained as a surgeon for the French merchant marine under the ancient regime. After six months in a British prison ship, he became an